Anne LORSIGNOL obtained her Phd in neuroendocrinology from Bordeaux University in 1995. After a three years postdoctoral fellow in Carl Denef’s lab in Leuven (Belgium), she obtained a tenure position as “Maître de Conférences” of Toulouse University in 1998. Now as a full Professor, she is teaching Animal Physiology and is in charge of the master degree « Physiopathology: from molecule to medicine ». With the help of physicists and mathematicians, she is trying to identify and investigate key determinants of tissue structuring and repair.